NICOGRAPH is a research paper contest in the area of computer graphics and multimedia hosted by the former Japan Computer Graphics Association Inc. since 1985. After the Multimedia Contents Promotion Association Inc. (MMCA) hosted the event for a number of years, NICOGRAPH is now organized by the Society of Art and Science since 2000. NICOGRAPF has a long history of publishing papers on computer graphics and multimedia, and has become an annual event for related persons in this area in Japan.

The 18th annual international conference "NICOGRAPH International 2019", organized by the Society for Art and Science will take place during July 5-6, 2019 in Yangling, Shaanxi, China.

NICOGRAPH has quarter-century history. Its foundation can be traced back to 1985. The time-honored annual conferences have been organized by the Society for Art and Science since 2000, which aim at promoting the research combining science and art in computer graphics and related fields as well as to advance the development of interactive media art. In 2002, the first international conference NICOGRAPH International rose out of the domestic series, and since then NICOGRAPH international conference has been organized annually.

From 2016, all accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/home) and published in the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital libraries, for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services (to be confirmed).